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Using Narrative Inquiry to Inform and Guide Our (RE) Interpretations of Lived Experience
Shields, Carmen
McGill Journal of Education, v40 n1 p179-188 Win 2005
In this paper, I share stories that provide sites of inquiry for the (re)interpretation of my own educative experience. Crossing time, I (re)visit and (re)construct seminal events in my life using knowledge gleaned in the intervening years to come to see how these life stories inform and guide me in the present. I use my own stories to enhance my understanding of the direction I am taking in my life since they are what I know, and I offer them here as an example of how narrative inquiry can provide a theoretical and practical framework for (re)interpreting our lived experience.
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Inquiry, Personal Narratives, Educational Experience, Student Experience, Consciousness Raising, Student Development, Individual Development
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